Brief biographies of twelve African American poets with examples of their best-known works, from Jupiter Hammon of the eighteenth century to today's Arna Bontemps and Gwendolyn Brooks
Jupiter Hammon (1720?-1806?) -- Phillis Wheatley (about 1753-1784) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) -- Effie Lee Newsome (1885-) -- Arna Bontemps (1902-) -- Langston Hughes (1902-) -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- Margaret Walker (1915-) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-)